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The patent concerns the use of dyes in laundry compositions, in particular a laundry composition comprising alkoxylated bis azo-dyes.

Brief outline of the case

The proprietor appealed the decision of the OD to revoke the patent for lack of sufficiency.

The OD concluded that a “process for preparation of the bis-azo dyes falling in the scope of claim 1 has not been disclosed in a manner sufficiently clear and complete that it can be carried out by the skilled person in the art”.

The application relates to biometric authentication using vein patterns of e.g. a palm or a finger. The positions of the vein pattern for matching are normally defined in respect of the outline of the considered region, which requires the acquisition of the entire region. For speed reasons it is desired to perform vein authentication using partial patterns.

The present invention generally relates to an optical system for projecting one or more synthetic optical images, which demonstrates improved resistance to optically degrading external effects.

Brief outline of the case

The proprietor appealed the revocation of its patent.

The board confirmed that claim 1 as granted contravened Art 123(2)

Admissible AR were not allowable,

The patent relates generally to agents and devices for promoting haemostasis and tissue sealing materials and, more particularly, to synthetic peptides having strong haemostatic properties and tissue sealing properties in combination with scaffolds, such as gelatine based haemostatic scaffolds.

Brief outline of the case

The patent was maintained according to AR 4 by the OD.

The patent relates to a fabric treatment composition, exactly to a softener.

Brief outline of the case

Opponent 2 appealed the decision to reject the opposition.

In appeal there was a long discussion about experimental data submitted by all the parties. Those data were all post-published.

There was unanimity among the parties that D1=DE 10 2006 034 051,